Also bootlegs deserve to be preserved so today we have some PLD dumps I got from not original boards (except one)
-Street Fighter II (bootleg)
-Bad Lands (bootleg)
-Power Balls (original by Playmark)
Dumps have been successfully tested in GAL devices.A picture of each board with PLD location has been uploaded as well.
In the past day I managed to repair a P.O.W. and Blood Bros. PCBs, this gave me the chance to test the PAL dumps we had in the archive.I could successfully convert the P.O.W. dumps from native PAL format into GAL one except for the one marked ‘P-A8’ which doesn’t work on PCB probably due timing issue.I tested the dumps from Blood Bros. (for some of them there was the need to convert from PAL to GAL format) confirming they are good and dumped a further device so now we have six dumps from this game (there are other two PLDs on PCB but sadly they are secured/registered PEEL18CV8 devices).Lastly, I added correct labels and PCB location.
Today saw Ace’ test the Vigilante PLD dumps we have.
These were previously untested and from an unknown source so its good to actually have these tested now.
Extra label detail was also added.
Thanks to Ace’ for tested and letting us know.
Today I got an interesting programmer unit.
Its made by a UK company called Lloyd Research and doesnt seem to be active anymore although their website is still up and running.
There is very little about these online, only one website came up in my searches with any kind of information and thats Baddinsbits.
I contacted the owner of this site and he kindly scanned in the manual for this programmer and sent it to me (manual can now be found in the downloads).
I dumped my firmware which seems to be one of the later versions, possibly from 2004.
I also went ahead and dumped the PAL’s from inside. There is one located on the EPROM PCB, two located under the LCD screen and one located next to the RAM. The one next to the RAM was locked which makes sense as I believe RAM upgrades were sold as optional extras. Anyway I managed to glitch this PALCE device and read out its contents. This is from the 8Mbit version.
If anyone has any other files, information or dumps they can give me please get in touch.
Big thanks to Baddin for the manual and the conversation.
Today I successfully converted the Operation Thunderbolt PAL dumps to GAL format and tested all of them. This is now a complete set.
Andrew96 also dumped, tested and submitted the PAL dump from the Fluke 9100 SCSI card. Big thanks to Andrew for this.